The minority report in India
In Another India, Pratinav Anil unambiguously faults Nehruvian secularism—the very mantle championed by historians such as Mushirul Hasan for whom “the congress best represented the Muslim interests from the fifties on.”
Art & Design
Nature Quest / Apes of the East
These Hoolock gibbons, locally known as "Ulluk", were spotted brachiating through the trees of Lawachhara National Park in Sylhet. Native to eastern Bangladesh, Northeast India, Myanmar and Southwest China, these lesser apes are diurnal, arboreal, and their method of locomotion is known as brachiation -- meaning they use their arms to swing from tree to tree
Snapshots of history—Golam Mustafa meets Manzoor Alam Beg
Modhurimay Alap (Swapno ‘71, 2023) transcribes two days of conversations with the late Golam Mustafa, first Director of Photography of Bangladesh Television.
15 years of iPhone: Evolution in photography
This week marks 15 years since the iPhone first went on sale and ushered in a new era: the age of the smartphone.
Culture Multimedia
Sufi saint Khan Jahan Ali's work in Bengal
The Sufi saint Khan Jahan Ali came to Bangla during the Sultanate period as a general. Later, he became known as an Islamic preacher and architect
CU campus: Music in the air
Books
Views / Why grown-ups should reimmerse themselves in children's literature
Children's literature is purposefully crafted for a segment of society without political or economic clout—individuals devoid of wealth, suffrage, or command over the levers of finance and governance.
Musings / Why I learned more from reading fiction books than nonfiction
It is deeply saddening that this discouragement to read fiction is coming at a time when we as a population are suffering from a crisis in empathy.
ESSAY / Partition and Bangladeshi literature
Their apartment was located on the ground floor of a three-storied building whose yellowish paint looked as if it was peeling off on its own.
